Margaret Mahy
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A resourceful father engages in all kinds of acrobatic moves to keep an assortment of jungle creatures from getting the double-dip-chocolate-chip-and-cherry ice cream cone he is taking home to his son.
7) Underrunners
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Tris and Winola find the underrunners, a vast network of tunnels, the ideal place to escape their unhappy lives and act out their fantasies, but the tunnels become a dangerous place when invaded by an unseen stranger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back and pretends to be a man-eating shark, all the other swimmers run for the beach. Norvin loves having the water to himself--until a real man-eating shark comes along!
12) Leaf magic
Author
Publisher
Parents' Magazine Press
Pub. Date
[1977] c1976
Language
English
Description
Michael desperately wants a dog but all he attracts is a big orange leaf that follows him everywhere.
13) The pop group
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press International
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
A mouse escapes capture by his own cunning, leaving his captors inspired enough to form a pop group more interested in singing than mousing.
14) Dashing dog!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A dashing dog, brushed-up-and-downery, dare-devil-daring and dog-about-townery dog, is twirled around, ruffled and scuffled and wobbled and whirled around.
15) A fortunate name
Author
Series
Cousins quartet volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As the only Bancroft in a family of Fortunes, Lolly has always felt left out of her Fortune cousins' exclusive gang but when her parents separate Lolly discovers a new inner strength and aspects of kinship that go beyond names.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1986, c1985
Language
English
Description
Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.
19) The five sisters
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
20) Keeping house
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Ashamed to let the housekeeper see how untidy her house has become, Lizzie Firkin cleans it herself.